IRON MAN 2
STARRING Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, and Scarlett Johansson
DIRECTED BY Jon Favreau
RELEASE DATE May 7, 2010
Buzz around the first Iron Man started building at the 2007 Comic-Con — the success caught many people by surprise. Now, three months into shooting on Iron Man 2 — in which Stark faces off against Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke), a Russian inventor who adopts the nom de evil Whiplash — star Robert Downey Jr. is the underdog no more. ''There are a lot more invisible eyes on us now,'' Downey says. —Josh Rottenberg